consolate

English

Etymology

Latin consolatus, p.p. See console (transitive verb).

Adjective

consolate (comparative more consolate, superlative most consolate)

  1. (humorous) Comforted, consoled.
    • 1994 July 25, Jack Winter, “How I met my wife”, in The New Yorker:
      It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate.

Verb

consolate (third-person singular simple present consolates, present participle consolating, simple past and past participle consolated)

  1. (obsolete) To console; to comfort.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for consolate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

consolate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of consolare
  2. second-person plural imperative of consolare
  3. feminine plural of consolato

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

cōnsōlāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of cōnsōlātus
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